Re: [BackupPC-users] Initiate backup from client?
2009-11-11 17:52:15
Meel Me wrote:
Hello,
I want to know if it's possible to initiate a backup from the client
machine, in a way
that the clients connects to the backuppc server over the internet to
start the backup?
*My (desired) situation*
I've got a laptop. I'm abroad for many months once and a while. While
I'm abroad I want to be able to backup my laptop regularly and to
restore the data on my laptop if it crashes (or gets stolen).
I want to place my backuppc server in a total other region than my home
is. So that a disaster like heavy earthquake, explosion, etc. will
never effect and my backuppc server and my laptop at once.
The location where I can place my backuppc server is not in my local
area network. The backuppc server will only be available through the
internet.
*Question*
I've read the documentation of backuppc. There are several methods for
backing up laptops (smb, rsync, rsyncd, tar). All methods are initiated
from the backuppc server, so the backuppc server will set up a
connection to the client.
If the client (my laptop) is not in the local area network, then the
backuppc server can't find the client and won't make a backup of it.
In the situation I described above, my laptop will never be in the
local area network of the backuppc server. Therefor my laptop will
never be backuped.
Is it possible to initiate a backup from the client machine, in a way
that the clients connects to the backuppc server over the internet to
start the backup? Instead of that the backuppc server makes a
connection to the client?
If so, how?
Thanks,
Wim
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I am working towards exactly the same idea, but for laptops that almost
*never* come into the office. For example, you can kick off a full
backup as follows:
BackupPC_serverMesg backup HOSTIP HOST USER FULL
I am working on (somehow) using cygwin on the Windows laptop to issue
the *nix command, and I intend to use OpenVPN to establish the
necessary network path whenever the laptop is connected to the
internet. I will post when I have a working procedure, if someone else
doesn't beat me to it first :-)
Peter
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